Sony raising PS Plus price by 33%

[dharh]

VAMatt said:

dharh said:

That part I kind of agree on. Like I can sort of get trying to recoup costs for running PSN, but it should not be that high for essential. Or at least they should have like a 4.99 price point for Plus Base (no Monthly games, Exclusive discounts, or whatever) that covers purely the cost of running PSN for 1 person. 

They're not in the business of selling things at cost. Sony exists to make as much money as possible. 

This is about the most basic of services. If charging above cost, so much so, that it causes more people to outright not buy a PSN sub at all I think there is a missing opportunity of long tail revenue and good will.

Back of the napkin math here but:

With ~47m PSN, ~6.1m Plus Extra, and ~8m Plus Premium subs on a potential install base of ~40M(PS5)+~58.5M(PS4 117.09M/2)=98.5M, I think there is a large audience of could be subs that would willing to pay cost+some small extra to be able to play online. Subs are flat, the price is going up. I think this inevitably leads to less subs per the install base. NOT offsetting the costs with a basic bare bone package inevitably loses money.